How to test for AnonymousUser in Django Unittesting

Question

• I'm testing a form
• A user may be logged in, or anonymous, when presented with the form
• If the form succeeds, the user will be logged in
• If the form fails, the user will remain as they were
• I'd like to confirm this behaviour by unit testing.

django.test.Client does have a login method for this kind of thing, but given a response object how do I determine who is logged in?

    data = {'email':'[email protected]','password':'abc'}
    c = Client()
    # here was can assume `request.user` is the AnonymousUser
    # or I can use `c.login(..)` to log someone in
    r = c.post('/myform/', data)

Can my unittest determine who the request.user would now be if I were to submit a second request?

Answer 1

You can do this:

client = Client()
# here was can assume `request.user` is the AnonymousUser
# or I can use `c.login(..)` to log someone in
from django.contrib import auth
user = auth.get_user(client) # it returns User or AnonymousUser

if user.is_anonymous():
   ...

It works because client keeps a user session (client.session).